Example sentences of "would make [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'D MAKE this Single Of The Week if it did n't seem such a wilfully perverse thing to do . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd make this week , I had four last week . |
| 3 | Cos if you did n't have that it 'd make this room more viable in as much as erm , the point of view of doing doing catering and , functions and all the rest of it . |
| 4 | That 'd make more sense would n't it ? |
| 5 | they 'd make more noise would n't they ? |
| 6 | Oh yes , they were all fed properly , looked after alright , but they all , they told me they were all pedigrees but I doubt cos I do n't know whether that 's the truth , but they reckon in Poland when things were bad , when they unload them , they 'd make some excuse that one of these pigs got out and run away and course they used to catch it er , somewhere they used to catch it and that was their fee then . |
| 7 | ‘ If you grew something like carrots it 'd make some sense . |
| 8 | He thought maybe he 'd make some soup . |
| 9 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |
| 10 | yes , I did n't think you 'd make any objection at all cos |
| 11 | I ca n't worry my husband because he 's not well and I do n't want him to think I 'd make any difference . |
| 12 | Indeed , while some laptop devices had emerged such as the Cornucopia and the Dynabook , it seemed unlikely that handheld CD-ROM technology of any kind would make much impact in world markets for some years . |
| 13 | Not that it would make much difference in this bloody place . |
| 14 | Not that it would make much difference if Lee got hold of them . |
| 15 | To tell the truth I 'm not sure it would make much difference . |
| 16 | I did not know whether having a contract would make much difference to the service delivered or to relationships between social workers and general practitioners . |
| 17 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 18 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 19 | Corbett sensed he would make little princess if de Craon continued in this vein ; he walked over to where a small , wooden crucifix was nailed to the mast and put his hand on it . |
| 20 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |
| 21 | In practice one suspects that it would make little sense to the participants in any of these cases to ask who is really being supported : . |
| 22 | If my toothache were an event analogous to , but entirely separated from the neurophysiological process that accompanies it , it would make little sense going to a dentist in search of relief . |
| 23 | Similarly , in the case of a plant under threat of closure , a strike would make little sense if the company intended moving the stock and machinery elsewhere . |
| 24 | It would make little sense in this context to increase the categories of sexual assault simply to maintain gender specificity . |
| 25 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 26 | Viewed in this way , attempts to delimit pragmatics in the ways explored above would make little sense ; pragmatics would not be a component or level of linguistic theory but a way of looking afresh at the data and methods of linguistics . |
| 27 | Without such a move , the current attempts to define the notion of logical consequence more or less directly on fragments of natural language ( as initiated by Montague , 1974 ) would make little sense as a general semantic programme . |
| 28 | Many estate agents were whistling to keep up their confidence this week , claiming that people were already used to the idea of higher mortgage rates and that the latest increase would make little difference . |
| 29 | In any case the French army had , by 1851 , become accustomed to changes of regime , so that many may have thought one more would make little difference . |
| 30 | It would make little difference what time of day it was . |